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Our Veterans of 1854: In Camp, and Before the Enemy.
Book ID: 3430More details Price: £300.00
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Pagan Celtic Britain:
Studies in Iconography and Tradition.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. A very good hardback - 433 pp. Original gilt and bronze lettered brown cloth, top edge brown, dust jacket in good condition (now in clear protective cover). Internally without inscriptions or other marks. Slight spine lean.255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
A substantial work, which includes over 200 line drawings, 96 monochrome photographs, maps, appendix, list of abbreviations and a good sized index.
Dr. Anne Ross has wide experience of living in Celtic-speaking communities where she has traced vernacular tradition. Using archaeological and anthropoligical evidence, as well as folklore, Dr. Ross provides broad insight into the early Celtic world.
Book ID: 2290More details Price: £30.00 -
Panoramique du Cinéma illustré de 80 Photographies
Book ID: 3241More details Price: £25.00
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Parliament for Europe.
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1979. First edition hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. David Marquand is an academic and former Member of Parliament. Marquand resigned his seat to work as Chief Advisor (1977 to 1978) to his mentor Roy Jenkins who had been appointed President of the European Commission. This is one of several books of this type that were published in the late 1970s on direct elections and the European Parliament. Adopting a pro-community position, Marquand picks up on a number of themes, and, in a highly readable, talkative manner, gives his point of view on accepted myths concerning the Community and direct elections. Both dust jacket and book are in a very good condition. 147 pages (including index). 225 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3583More details Price: £25.00 -
Partners in Diplomacy
Ferring, Sussex: The Harley Press, 1990. Signed by the author to title page. First edition hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. With many b/w photos. The author, Lady Smedley (herself the wife of a British diplomat) tells the stories of nearly 300 years' worth of women who supported their diplomatic husbands - and some who didn't! 214 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3670More details Price: £40.00 -
Paul Robeson. The Life and Times of a Free Black Man.
Book ID: 4321More details Price: £30.00
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Poet and Pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Photographs by John Phillips. Collection du Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne. With texts by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, John Phillips, Cjarles-Henri Favrod.
Zürich: Scalo, 1994. Very nice copy of this first edition thus (First English Language edition). Full page and contact sheet style photographs plus commentary. Illustrated dust wrapper with just a little bumping to the edges. Red boards with blue spine in excellent condition. A touching photographic study of the author and illustrator of the Little Prince. Internally spotless throughout. 88 pages. 315 by 230mm (12½ by 9 inches).
Book ID: 3494More details Price: £25.00 -
Poliniae Testamentum.
A poem.
Edition: First Edition
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1942. First edition in dust wrapper. Limited to 500 copies - this being copy 406. Signed by the author with a gift inscription to the front end paper. A poem of Poland's history from the earliest known beginnings to the time of writing (the second world war). Published at perhaps the darkest point of the war, the author tries to hold on to the belief that good will triumph. Text in English. 94 pages.
The dust wrapper (now protected in clear removable acetate) has a small chip to the bottom edge of the spine, and a slight nicking elsewhere - otherwise clean and tidy. A touch of darkening to the white rear panel. The book itself is clean and tidy inside and out.Book ID: 1446More details Price: £20.00 -
Political Communications: The general election campaign of 1987
Book ID: 4333More details Price: £50.00
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Pompei e la Regione Sotterrata dal Vesuvio nell'anno LXXIX.
Napoli: Cav. F. Giannini, 1879. A very attractively illustrated volume with 18 documents on items removed from Pompeii and Vesuvius "Memorie e notizie pubblicate dall'Ufficio "
7 chromolithographic plates (of which 1 double page), 1 fold-out card, 1 fold-out plate, 3 double-page plates and 7 other plates. Ex-library with label removed from the free front cover and several discreet stamps. Some very incidental light spots. All edges uncut and a bit dusty otherwise content very clean publisher's printed paper covers shelves and old spine repairs. COPAC finds 9 copies in the UK.
(6), 291, (1); 243, (5). (320 x 225). pp 410 x 320 mm (16¼ x 12½ inches).
Book ID: 2922More details Price: £325.00 -
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.
Oliver Cromwell - portrait and biography abstracted from Lodge.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. An engraved portrait of Oliver Cromwell. Engraved by Walker, taken from the collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp. There is also an 18 page biography of Cromwell by Lodge - taken from his Portraits of Illustrious Personages - volume V. portrait & 75-92 pp
Condition: Although disbound, both the portrait and the biography are clean and tidy. There is a touch of darkening to the pages only. Now held in a protective cellophane packet. The biography largely has uncut pages. Overall a nice little piece.
Book ID: 1381More details Price: £5.00 -
Remains of Pagan Saxondom.
Book ID: 2218More details Price: £150.00
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Robert Baillie and the Second Scots Reformation
Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1974. First Edition, hardback in dust jacket. Clean and fresh, with just slight sun fading to spine of dust jacket. 244 pages. 235 x 160 mm (9¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3453More details Price: £20.00 -
Sea Road to the Indies.
An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira.
London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. First British edition. Hardback. In original unclipped dust jacket. Now in protective wrap. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. The map end papers have some age toning in line with the dust jacket. Inside is clean. The dust jacket has a little age-toning and some light rubbing / chips to the corners. Overall a good example. 296 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2889More details Price: £20.00 -
Secret Despatches from Arabia.
Published by Permission of the Foreign Office.
London: 1939. Nice copy of this numbered limited first edition from The Golden Cockerel Press. Cream boards with quarter Niger leather spine and gilt titles by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The black leather is in excellent condition, but the cream boards are a little rubbed on the corners, and slightly soiled. Still attractive though. The end papers have stains where tape has been used (it seems to hold a previous cover). Otherwise the book is in very good clean condition. #458 / 1000 copies. Printed on Arnold's mould made paper. Top edge gilt. Frontis photograph of Lawrence. 173, [2], pp. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3311More details Price: £300.00 -
Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications
London: J. Debrett, 1798. First edition. Two volumes, sympathetically rebound in half calf, with new leather spines, but retaining carefully restored original marbled boards. Original boards a little rubbed, but recent leather all very good. Some spots of foxing internally. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches). Volume I: viii, 526 pp. Volume II: viii, 528 pp.
William Tooke (1744–1820) was a British clergyman and an historian of Russia. This work gives a fascinating historical perspective, not only on his favoured Russia, but also on everything from the way ladies dressed in Peru, to the use of spices in 'the torrid zone'.Book ID: 2490More details Price: £260.00 -
[Sermones de tempore et de Sanctis]
Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479. An attractive leaf, taken from Bonaventure's Sermons. Printed in black with red highlighting of capitals and key letters. Printed to both sides of the leaf, in two columns. Area of light staining to the bottom corner of the leaf (visible both sides) otherwise in excellent condition. The paper is chain laid paper, with a crude unicorn watermark. Although we have been unable to date / match precisely, the paper and watermark are very similar to some in the graphics arts collection at Princeton University, including one from Bruges dated to 1475 and another dated 1593. Very small damage to the edge where removed from a book. Slight marking to one side of the paper. 270 x190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3336More details Price: £100.00 -
Short sketches of eminent men of the North of England.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1885. Scarce. First Edition. Previously published as articles in the 'Consett Guardian'. Copac lists only two holdings - Newcastle and Oxford. Disbound, but the text block is complete and holding well (Has more the appearance of a tract). Has some age toning, and spots of foxing. Concise biographies of characters such as the "Father of Railways" George Stephenson, former Prime Minister Earl Grey, engineer and industrialist William George Armstrong (1st Baron Armstrong), Victorian ironmaster Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, and others. 160 pages. 185 x 125 mm (7¼ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3029More details Price: £80.00 -
Sixteen scenes taken from the Miseries of Human Life by one of The Wretched.
Book ID: 4387More details Price: £325.00
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Spricht im Wormser Stadion der Führer der Nationalsozialisten.
Advertising ticket for Adolf Hitler speech in 1932.
Book ID: 4364More details Price: £120.00